FW Material Development Intern / Sports Equipment

Nike

Job Description

The first spark of a product idea sets the Nike Footwear Product Creation team into motion. The team of footwear developers, testers, engineers and designers strive for product excellence. They obsess over shoes, while collaborating, ideating and refining the product's construction, fit and style. They use groundbreaking advancements in technology and sustainable design to accelerate innovation. And they work lockstep with Merchandising, Design, Manufacturing and others to produce the final result: products that reflect the soul of sport and inspire athletes to reach new levels of performance.Description As our FW Materials Intern, you'll join our Development Team and learn the end-to-end materials process and calendar. You'll be assisting in developing new materials for a variety of substrates from textiles to leather to synthetics. You will be given projects where you will have the opportunity to create a seasonal material palette for a category. You'll work with material vendors to gather critical technical data/info to enable appropriate use and application onto products. You'll be required to help the team manage systems with data integrity and accuracy. You'll act as a key member of the team, helping to research and develop new materials. In addition, you'll also be called upon to create tools that help drive material palette utilization.